Cameras capture eagle killing deer in Russia

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Remote cameras intended to monitor
Siberian tigers in Russia instead caught a golden eagle's fatal attack
on a deer, snapping three photos as the massive bird dug its talons into
the distressed animal's back.

London's Zoological Society, which
distributed the pictures to journalists, said the sequence showed a rare
but not unheard of attack by a golden eagle. The society's Linda Kerley
said she first realized something was up when she approached the
wildlife-monitoring device — also called a camera trap — and found a
mangled deer carcass nearby.

"Something felt wrong about it," she
said in a statement accompanying the photographs. "There were no large
carnivore tracks in the snow, and it looked like the deer had been
running and then just stopped and died.